Example sentences of "'s [adv] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The irony is that it 's all been dead for us lately .
2 David you allowed to hit him now , he 's only been one for thrty-eight years .
3 ‘ Umm … although it 's only been half-restored to its original state , and so there 's a lot of work to be done .
4 ‘ I need help getting on and off the train and British Rail provides a ramp for this , but for about a month it 's only been possible for me to arrive or leave the station before 3.15pm .
5 and it 's only been open for what two or three years
6 ERNIE 's just been down-rated by the way to reduce the ou the , the ac the average now is less than seven percent .
7 He 's just been nice to me . ’
8 He 's always been opposed to women in the church .
9 He 's always been paranoid about intelligence , seeing plots and hidden microphones and leaks to the media … he kept the money tight , too .
10 I 'd have to say that Deuce was the most aggressive and distorted band around Washington , and that 's always been one of my attitudes : to be the most aggressive , no-holds-barred type of player that I can possibly be . ’
11 That 's always been one of Father 's maxims .
12 Well he 's always been pleasant to me you got ta
13 He 's always been quick at picking another job up
14 No no , I I , I mean , she 's always been alright with me really , I mean , y you know , she 's not not at all mother-in-law , she 's not
15 Yeah , she 's always been alright with me , you know , so I ca n't say about anybody else , I mean she 's already , she 's always been really nice to me , but like them people she goes around , well she used to go around with Lisa and Vicky and all that lot and when she used to go around with them she used to be bitching them off behind their back and going oh you 're my best friend , to their faces .
16 But everyone 's always been frightened of Fincara .
17 He 's always been interested in what makes people tick .
18 Alan Webb says he 's always been interested in boats and when he took it up started going to marinas and out to sea but after a while he wanted to go faster and have more fun
19 He 's always been fond of animals and spent much of his life working for their welfare .
20 Right , I think it 's always been time-tabled for two hours though
21 It 's always been grim Up North …
22 So that 's not good news Erm , if I can show the way of overcoming that problem , how , would you be interested , and you say , that problem 's always been difficult for me , you know what can I say then , ca n't say , you ready to train yourself to think , you know , physically you a little bit of actually , putting yourself in their world .
23 He 's probably been dead for about two years , they have n't noticed !
24 Erm he has nothing at all because he 's never been married to you .
25 She 's never been involved with another woman ! ’
26 Andre Jones says he 's never been involved in anything which calls for such team work … he says it 's like a racing driver steering while someone else has a foot on the accelerator …
27 ‘ Well , it 's never been one of my favourite words , mainly because it emerged from a marketing concept more than from musicians .
28 ‘ There 's never been much of a plan , so there 's no reason to cancel out any initial plans of getting degrees and going on and doing something else . ’
29 ‘ He 's never been much of a man for dancing , not unless he 's drunk and then he 'll dance with the best of them . ’
30 A secret valley that 's never been open to the public could soon be taken over by the National Trust .
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